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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (128553)4/6/2004 11:22:28 PM
From: Bilow  Respond to of 281500
 
Hi Maurice Winn; Re: "Fighting for Halliburton's profits must be demoralizing when the expectation of young Iraqi women garlanding their liberators evaporated like the swarms of virgins Jihadis expect to find when they decorporealize."

LOL!!! Reminds me of the classic lines from the Iranian mathematician Omar Khayam (written 1120):

...
Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
...

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-- Carl